A young married woman who wants to start a family isn’t putting her life on hold if she has a baby. The key here being “married”. A teenager who has a kid by a 20-something father, who dumps her for somebody else, isn’t just putting her life on hold, she’s mortgaging her entire future, and that of her kid.
For one thing, as Richard of Oregon points out, these teen mommies are usually too young and inexperienced to raise a kid by themselves. Let’s face it; a lot of them aren’t going to finish school or train for a career. Too many of them just wait around for the next “boyfriend” to come along, meanwhile dumping their kid on their grandparents, while they go party. Even by their mid-twenties, they won’t have had the experience of supporting themselves, or possess any really useful skills.
